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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Aeronautics and Transportation Feb 9th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Aeronautics and Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • real ID driver's license, an option for an applicant to donate monies to the Oklahoma Department of Veterans
  • Most people would support going directly to veterans, but not necessarily to an agency.
  • things, one for what specific purpose are you wanting this money to be going to the Department of Veterans
  • Affairs, and two, if you're wanting to go to the Department of Veterans Affairs to that foundation,
  • In Oklahoma right now, there's some debate about license plate readers.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture and Wildlife Feb 9th, 2026

Agriculture and Wildlife

Bills: SB2108 , SB2121 , SB2171 , SB2061 , SB2112 , SB2138
Summary: The committee laid over several bills at the start of the meeting, including SB 1550, SB 2173, and SB 2114, and announced a new rule prohibiting video recording on phones in the committee room. The committee then took up a series of agriculture-related measures, with most of the discussion focused on feral hog control, lab-grown meat, hunting regulations, local food policy, open-range cleanup, and prescribed burn liability coverage. SB 2108, as amended, was presented as a feral swine control bill. Supporters said it would reduce property damage, disease spread, and regulatory barriers for landowners and hunters, while opponents raised concerns about people who capture hogs for food and the impact on self-provisioning. The committee adopted the amendment and passed the bill 10-2. SB 2121, which would ban the sale of cell-cultured, lab-grown meat, drew debate over free-market choice versus protecting Oklahoma agriculture and food safety; it passed 9-3. SB 2171, which would extend the residency requirement for a lifetime fishing license from six months to one year and create a velvet buck season under controlled hunts, passed 12-1 after debate about trophy hunting, commercialization, and deer management. SB 2061 would create an Oklahoma Food Policy Council within the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry to coordinate local food networks and producer-to-consumer access. Testimony from the agency said some related work is already being done through its Market Development Division, but the council would formalize broader representation; the bill passed 12-1. SB 2112, as amended, cleaned up prior open-range language to include leased land and passed unanimously. SB 2138 would establish a prescribed burn indemnity fund to help cover damages from escaped prescribed burns; members discussed coverage levels, funding, and whether it primarily protects the burner or neighboring landowners. It also passed unanimously. The meeting ended with an announcement about a Marshallese group performing in the rotunda and then adjournment.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Aeronautics and Transportation Feb 9th, 2026

Aeronautics and Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • So is there any language you can add to clarify that we want these monies to go directly to veterans?
  • how you got the language, just so that we can clarify because I believe your intent is to go to veterans
  • Most people would support it going directly to veterans, but not necessarily to an agency.
  • Affairs; and two, if you're wanting it to go to the Department of Veterans Affairs foundation, by the
  • In Oklahoma right now there's some debate about license plate readers, as we all know.
Summary: The committee heard a series of transportation-related Senate bills, beginning with memorial naming measures and then moving into funding, licensing, and safety proposals. Senate Bill 1220, naming the Terry Walker Memorial Interchange, and Senate Bill 1516, allowing Real ID applicants to donate to the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs through Service Oklahoma forms, both advanced on 10-2 votes after brief questions about funding and where donations would go. Senate Bill 1239, which extends the sunset for County Improvements for Roads and Bridges Fund appropriations and cleans up duplicate statutory language, advanced after title was stricken and members raised questions about reporting requirements and a possible conflict in the funding language. Senate Bill 1531, an ODAA request related to future drone regulation, advanced unanimously after title was stricken. The committee also considered several road and licensing measures. Senate Bill 1349 would increase apportionments to the Roads Fund over eight years up to $1 billion; members questioned the long-term commitment, inflation, and overlap with other road-funding bills, but it advanced 10-2. Senate Bill 1221 would let Service Oklahoma provide tracking for mailed driver’s licenses and IDs and offer optional expedited delivery; after Service Oklahoma testified that refunds would be issued if expedited service was not provided, the bill advanced unanimously. Senate Bill 1538, reinstating the requirement to pass or show proof of an eighth-grade reading exam to obtain a driver’s license, advanced 11-1 after discussion of the literacy goal and the employment-based exemption. The committee then approved Senate Bill 1309, which raises from $80 million to $100 million the amount reserved from Roads Fund apportionments for debt service, on a unanimous vote. The most debated measure was Senate Bill 1434, which would authorize automated speed enforcement in highway construction zones with warning signs, limited image retention, independent audits, and penalties for noncompliance; supporters argued it would save workers’ lives, while opponents raised privacy and future-use concerns and suggested officer-based enforcement instead. Despite those objections, the bill advanced 7-5. The meeting ended with a notice that Senator Merrick’s bill, SB 1861, would be laid over.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Budget Jan 15th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Capital Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • These included the state share of funding for a future skilled nursing facility for veterans in Spokane
  • For veterans in Spokane, projects to expand and increase the safety at juvenile rehabilitation facilities
  • I am a disabled Gulf War combat veteran, an enrolled member of the Simtian Nation.
Bills: HB2295
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 19th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • SB2938 by Menendez relating to the verification of veterans. The status of inmates and prisoners.
  • We check the veteran status of an inmate during the intake process.
  • We have at our disposal a veterans reentry search service. So it's that simple.
  • the Texas Veterans Commission, issue a daily report, and allow the justice-involved veterans to speak
  • with Veteran County service officers or peer support coordinators.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 5th, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Police chief used the flock cameras, the license plate readers, to track and stalk his ex-girlfriend
  • In Kansas City, a police chief used the same license plate reader technology to harass others as well
  • But in Atlanta, police chief used the flock cameras, the license plate readers, to track and stalk his
  • In Kansas City, a police chief used the same license plate reader technology to harass others as well
Summary: The House took up Second Substitute Senate Bill 5974, a bill modernizing and strengthening laws concerning sheriffs, police chiefs, volunteers, youth cadets, and related law enforcement roles. Members first considered a striking amendment and then a series of floor amendments, with debate repeatedly focusing on sheriffs as elected constitutional officers, the scope of state authority over local law enforcement, and whether the bill would create unfunded mandates or practical problems for counties. Supporters of the bill and many amendments argued for clarifying language, local flexibility, and state payment for new requirements; opponents generally warned the bill would weaken elected sheriffs, impose costs on counties, or overreach into local control. Amendment 2343, which would have added intent language emphasizing that sheriffs are directly accountable to the electorate, was debated at length and defeated on a roll call vote, 41 yeas to 56 nays. Amendment 2373, shifting background-check costs to the state through the Washington State Patrol, was also defeated, 44 yeas to 53 nays. Amendment 2374, narrowing provisions affecting private security and specially commissioned officers, failed 41 to 56. Amendment 2369, clarifying rules for volunteers and youth cadets, failed 41 to 56. Amendment 2371, limiting surveillance-related provisions to situations requiring a warrant, failed 42 to 55. Amendment 2372, clarifying that only non-public information would be restricted from disclosure, also failed 41 to 56. Later, Amendment 2370, which would have aligned the bill’s definition of volunteer law enforcement officers with existing statute, was defeated 42 to 55. Finally, Amendment 2352, which would have exempted current sheriffs from the bill’s new decertification rules, was debated as a protection against changing the rules midstream but was opposed on the grounds that the bill already grandfathered in the one sheriff who did not meet the new experience requirement; the amendment’s vote was not completed in the excerpt provided. The transcript also begins with the Speaker signing several bills, including Substitute House Bill 1570 and Substitute Senate Bill 6248.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Feb 27th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 5420 relates to veteran benefits. Senate Bill 5420 relates to veteran benefits.
  • I'm with the Veterans Legislative Coalition.
  • For our veterans, service members, and their families.
  • Substitute Senate Bill 5827 relates to veterans.
  • Veterans may claim the exam scoring criteria or other veterans' civil service preference after they have
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/09/2026 - House Health & Human Services

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm the Director of Veterans Affinity on Sovereign Affairs.
  • I've been on the reservation where veterans, our own veterans, have no access to care and they wait three
  • We have veterans who have no access to doctors and nurses.
  • Our own veterans live on the reservations too in Arizona.
  • I want to dive in a little bit to the veterans part.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services Feb 4th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • for SB 96 updates and strengthens Florida's commitment to ensuring access to dental care for our veterans
  • Oral health is essential to overall health, yet too many veterans lack access to basic dental services
  • This bill revises the purpose of the Veterans Dental Care Grant Program to ensure that veterans living
  • By doing so, the bill expands access while still targeting resources to veterans who need help affording
  • The amendment does not change the eligibility, does not change the purpose of the Veterans Dental Care
Bills: S0068 , S0096 , S0340 , S0428 , S0606 , S1480 , S7018
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services heard public comment first on the AIDS Drug Assistance Program and the iBudget waiver. Testimony on the HIV program warned that proposed Department of Health changes could disrupt care for thousands of clients, create confusion, and force people off life-saving medications; a senator suggested affected clients explore medically needy and FQHC/340B options. Testimony on iBudget urged support for a roughly 7% rate adjustment for direct support professionals, citing rising costs and the need to sustain the developmental disabilities workforce. The committee then considered several bills. SB 428 expanded Florida’s swim lesson voucher program from children ages 0-4 to ages 1-7 and was reported favorably. SB 68 required hospitals with emergency departments to adopt pediatric emergency care policies, training, equipment standards, and readiness assessments; an amendment aligning reporting dates with the House was adopted, and the bill was reported favorably. SB 1718 lengthened the time an adult may stay in an out-of-home placement before being treated as a visitor, reduced background screening burdens for foster families, made the Step Into Success program permanent, and created a best-practices program; it was also reported favorably. The committee next approved SB 606, which adds drowning-prevention and safe-bathing education to postpartum materials and requires related compliance records, and SB 96, which expands the Veterans Dental Care Grant Program to veterans up to 400% of the federal poverty level; an amendment removed the bill’s specific $500,000 appropriation so funding can be handled in the budget process. SB 340 required nursing education to include a two-hour human trafficking course before licensure, and SB 1480 created a grandfathering process for certain area-of-critical-need health care providers if federal designations change, both of which were reported favorably. The committee adjourned after all bills passed their roll calls.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • veteran treatment court that I think do amazing things.
  • veterans.
  • I, too, am a United States Army veteran.
  • I was co-chair of the Veterans Caucus last year.
  • I currently have four other bills, four veterans that have been stakeholdered and asked for by the veterans
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Regulated Industries Jan 27th, 2026

Regulated Industries

Transcript Highlights:
  • against illegal slot operators while also providing an avenue of protection for our well-intentioned veteran
  • against illegal slot operators while also providing an avenue of protection for our well-intentioned veteran
  • An important component of the bill is that it provides a pathway for well-intentioned veteran service
  • Chair, Vice Chair, my fellow veterans are up here, members.
Bills: S0530 , S0658 , S0608 , S1708 , S0680 , S0980 , S0204
Summary: The Committee on Regulated Industries considered and reported several bills. SB 530 on state lotteries was presented with two technical amendments adopted, including changes to lottery department contracting language and machine-purchase flexibility; the committee then reported the bill favorably. SB 204, which increases penalties for illegal slot machine operations to a third-degree felony and creates a declaratory-statement process for veteran service organizations to confirm machine legality, drew support from gaming interests and some soft opposition from a veterans group concerned about implementation; it was also reported favorably. The committee then took up a proposed committee substitute combining SB 658 and SB 608 on water safety requirements for rental and vacation properties. The combined bill would require certain rental properties near water bodies or with pools to install specified alarms, locks, fences, covers, or similar safety devices, with enforcement through DBPR and a grace period for correcting some violations. Senators emphasized the bill as a response to child drowning deaths, including those involving autistic children, and the PCS was reported favorably. SB 980, as a delete-everything amendment, would create the Florida Agegate Act to restrict advertising, promotion, and display of non-FDA-approved nicotine devices in areas accessible to those under 21, with penalties and inspection authority; after questions about counterfeit products and enforcement, it was reported favorably. The committee also approved SB 1708, which removes a three-year out-of-state practice requirement for veterinary licensure by endorsement while keeping other competency requirements, and SB 680, as amended, which creates a sales tax exemption for electricity sold to EV charging station operators and transferred to consumers, subject to metering and affidavit requirements. Several members recorded votes after the roll calls, and the meeting ended with an invitation to return later for another bill before adjournment.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Regulated Industries Jan 27th, 2026

Regulated Industries

Transcript Highlights:
  • against illegal slot operators, while also providing an avenue of protection for our well-intentioned veteran
  • An important component of the bill is that it provides a pathway for well-intentioned veteran service
  • Chair, Vice Chair, my fellow veterans are up here, members.
Bills: S0530 , S0658 , S0608 , S1708 , S0680 , S0980 , S0204
Summary: The Committee on Regulated Industries met and reported several bills favorably. SB 530 on state lotteries, presented by Senator Pizzo, made technical changes to the Department of Lottery’s powers and duties, clarified definitions, and allowed more flexibility to purchase rather than lease machines; two technical amendments were adopted before the bill passed. SB 204, also presented by Senator Bradley, increased penalties for illegal slot machine operations to a third-degree felony and created a process for veteran service organizations to seek binding declaratory statements from the Gaming Commission about whether a machine is lawful; the bill was reported favorably after testimony from supporters and a veteran organization expressing concern about clarity and good-faith cooperation. SB 658 and SB 608 were combined into a proposed committee substitute on water safety for rental and vacation properties, requiring certain pool or water safety devices and adding enforcement provisions through DBPR; the merged bill was reported favorably after strong testimony emphasizing child drowning statistics and support from local residents and industry representatives. SB 980, as amended, created the Florida Agegate Act to restrict advertising, promotion, and display of non-FDA-approved nicotine dispensing devices around minors, with escalating penalties and inspection authority; members discussed concerns about illegal products and enforcement, and the bill was reported favorably. SB 1708 on veterinary licensure by endorsement removed a three-year recent practice requirement for out-of-state veterinarians while keeping other competency standards, and it was reported favorably with support from several animal and veterinary-related groups. SB 680, as amended, addressed double taxation of electricity used at EV charging stations by creating a sales tax exemption for separately metered electricity transferred to consumers, and it was also reported favorably. The committee also noted additional support forms for the water safety bill and adjourned after miscellaneous remarks and announcements.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/17/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair, members, House Bill 2057 lowers the registration renewal fee for the Arizona Centennial Special Plate
  • vehicles registered in the fleet and specifies the $20 registration renewal fee includes an $8 special plate
  • Chair, members, House Bill 2057 lowers the registration renewal fee for the Arizona Centennial Special Plate
  • vehicles registered in the fleet and specifies the $20 registration renewal fee includes an $8 special plate
  • Those dollars help finance projects that create housing for seniors, families, working families, veterans
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - House Transportation & Infrastructure

Transportation & Infrastructure

Transcript Highlights:
  • Marine veteran.
  • a veteran and a bona fide Bronze Star recipient, and to immediate family members of the veteran.
  • as the Bronze Star medal license plate.
  • If I may, although there is a gold star license plate, there's apparently not a silver star license plate
  • There's apparently not a silver star license plate.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/20/26

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • While this is creating a set of benefits for these SGU veterans, it is not opening up these veterans
  • Most significantly, the benefits for these veterans revolve around burial in state veterans cemetery
  • and burial honors in a private cemetery or in a veterans cemetery. of benefits for these SGU veterans
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  • </c><01:29:19.200><c> So</c> veterans cemetery. So veterans cemetery.